How I can 'Recover' or Revert to my old SB Live WDM Drivers??

[thatsright]

Stupid me, I decided to download the Most recent SB Live drivers off of the creative site. I installed the SB Live Uni-pack and then the Uni-Pack up date; with dates of 2-23-03. The file sizes are 6.17MB & 23.3MB

So once I installed the files on my XP Pro system, the sound immediately went down hill, substantially. It now sounds like my speakers are in another room or something. Before, the card gave out immersive, deep sounds. Now its just like a faint voice, and my Volume levels need to be increased to the max to get sub-par sound. Before, my sound was too loud at half of the Volume Level?? So what I did was uninstall the drivers, then remove my SB Live sound card from the Device manager. Once XP restarted, it detected the card and reinstalled the WDM Drivers that installed originally when I installed XP Pro.

BUT, the sound still sounds worse just like after I 'upgraded' to the Creative Drivers. I have no idea why, so perhaps someone knows how I can get the soundcard to sound like it did when I originally installed windows?

Anyone have a idea. Thanks

 

[thatsright]

Anyone??

 

[stevewm]

You ONLY need the UniPack, the Update pack is NOT needed.... The update pack is to used if you already have previous drivers installed on your system. (The default Windows one's do not count...)


Anways check The EAX Control panel in AudioHQ, make sure the Original Sound slider is set to max and also click the All Effects Off button. Then bring up the Windows mixer, click Options, and then Advanced controls, click the Advanced button that appears under the Master Out slider, make sure both the Bass and Treble sliders are in the center.

 

[thatsright]

Originally posted by: stevewm
You ONLY need the UniPack, the Update pack is NOT needed.... The update pack is to used if you already have previous drivers installed on your system. (The default Windows one's do not count...)


Anways check The EAX Control panel in AudioHQ, make sure the Original Sound slider is set to max and also click the All Effects Off button. Then bring up the Windows mixer, click Options, and then Advanced controls, click the Advanced button that appears under the Master Out slider, make sure both the Bass and Treble sliders are in the center.

Well thanks steve, I already tried that. When I would try to go into AudioHQ, I would always get an error message. Then after all of the aggeravation, I just uninstalled everything, and rolled-back to my original WDM drivers that were installed with XP. Yet the crappy sound still exists. The next thing I will try is to use system Restore. I dunno, hope that works??